PHOTOPOEMS : Poetry reading and slideshow
with James Sutherland-Smith + Shamil Khairov
Saturday 15th November - 7pm - Admission free
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Taking place at Street Level, 48 King St (first floor), Glasgow G1 5QT
{T: 0141 552 2151)
The shape of winter has spiralled down
Unhurriedly to alter things,
Which now assume strange principle
The truck's become a hound of heaven
Waiting underneath with sardonic smile
As though it had just treed a kitten.
Footprints semicircle round the truck
And cluster under both cab doors.
They are the scrawl of somebody who tried
To tread sense on to the tablet of the snow;
Hopelessly, for such meanings as there are will go
As the white resumes its downward sigh.
James Sutherland-Smith: (poet, translator, critic) has published five individual collections of poetry the latest of which, Popeye in Belgrade is published in November 2008 by Carcanet. His previous collections include In the Country of Birds (Carcanet, 2003) and At the Skin Resort (Arc 1998).
The poems from the collection At the Skin Resort are located in Eastern Europe and respond to the revolutionary years of 1989 to 1991. James lives in Belgrade. Among the prizes he has received are the first prize in the Peterloo competition (2002) and the Hviezdoslav prize for translating Slovak poetry 2003.
Shamil Khairov: (linguist and photographer) is a member of The Russian Union of Photographic Artists. He has given a number of papers and interviews on Russian photography and has created a course on Russian 20th-Century Visual Culture, which was first given in Ireland and Finland and is currently being taught at Glasgow. He is a lecturer in Russian at Glasgow University.
His black-and-white photographs of Russian rural and urban landscapes have taken part in several contests and exhibitions and have been published on the covers of books and in photographic magazines.
PHOTOPOEMS is their joint project which goes back to the early 1990's when they exchanged their creative work for the first time. James writes small poems to Shamil's photographs adding a poetical colour to the images. Some of their joint work has been published in The London Magazine, (December/January 2006) and more is in preparation.
This event is a part of the Cultural Crossings conference held by the University of Glasgow.
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Reading The Waves : with Des Dillon, Paul McCafferty + others
Thursday 27th November - 7.15 - 9pm
£4 - £3 concessions
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Taking place at Street Level, 48 King St (first floor), Glasgow G1 5QT
{T: 0141 552 2151)
 Writer Des Dillon is the featured performer at Reading the Waves. An internationally acclaimed Scottish writer, here is a cross section of his output: Me and Ma Gal: Argyll Publishing, 1995, The Big Empty: A Collection of Short Stories: Argyll Publishing, 1997, Duck: Argyll Publishing, 1998, Itchycooblue: Headline, 1999, Six Black Candles: Headline, 2002, Picking Brambles: Luath Press, 2003, Singin I'm No a Billy He's a Tim: Luath Press, 2005. Currently touring:
Sectarianism, The Irish Experience in Scotland, Monks: world premiere The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh 2007.
Born in Coatbridge, Des is a poet, short story writer, novelist, dramatist, broadcaster, screen writer, scriptwriter for TV, stage and radio. He was Writer-in-Residence at Castlemilk 1998-2000. Anthologised internationally, he has been published in the USA, India, Russia, Sweden, in Catalan, French and Spanish.
His novel Me and Ma Gal was included on the list of The 100 Greatest Ever Scottish Books.
Reading the Waves is an evening of word, wine and music; it brings together the best of Scottish writing and gives the writing 'freshers' of the Professional Writing class at GCNS a chance to perform their work. Come along, it will be a 'great night'.
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Street Level Photoworks was founded in 1989. From its inception it has provided artists and the public with the opportunity to produce and participate in photography and lens-based media. It aims to make artistic production accessible, both physically and intellectually, to a wide audience.
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